“I’ve been relistening to all of Art Bell’s Coast to Coast from the 90s”

This is my favorite pedantic argument of the day.

Ghosts are residents.

True, but the Shuttle program and ISS hardly constitute abandonment of space — and we’ve also sent ever more sophisticated probes to most of the Solar System. (And the “mission to Planet Earth” stuff can do things like measuring mm changes in the size of a continent.)

Your original post and every comment since have been crass and classless attacks on strangers on the internet. You are an unenviable hypocrite. Go play in traffic.

NBCs F1 coverage was amazing compared to what ESPN just gave us.

The Baker wasn’t as limiting as you might think - in the early days of the car, roads outside of town were often deeply rutted mud bogs, so even internal combustion cars with theoretically greater range really couldn’t drive that far in practice, either. In a world where every car was largely confined to in-town…

Damn. I knew you’d get some heat for this comment, but there is some legitimately hateful shit below.

I love how many people made new accounts just so they can bark back at me from the grays.

Also the market competitor for them was likely plush carriages. For many wealthy people that would be what they expected. Fast open top cars would be for enthusiasts.

That’s as maybe, but note that every single one of those ICE cars is an open tourer, and the Baker is fully enclosed. It wouldn’t be until the twenties that ICE cars finally caught up with BEVs in their ability to keep the weather out.

COTD

Uber can’t mandate safety drivers to pay attention and meet standards, because then they would be employees. We all know Uber largely exists because of contractor exploitation.

YESSSSSSS. This is how you kinja.

This is going to be a very underrated comment, but I appreciate you.

Well it’s white, so it will obviously generate far more income than it’s worth.

How much extra for a safety driver who pays attention? And one who pays attention but has been checked for a criminal record. One competently checked for a criminal record. One competently checked for a criminal record, and still won’t assault me anyway? These fees probably add up real quick.

They are simply awful. They’ve clearly been pushing the limits with their tech to generate positive buzz about the company.

And if I’d been alive back then, they’d have made a solid sale to this lady! I have started a car on a handcrank (it was a 2CV, in France in the 1980s) and while it is a fun thing to do as an experience, that would have gotten old real fast if I had to do it everyday. I like the plushness too.

Hah! Totally called it. All this Uber crash has done is highlight how shitty Uber is. It has strengthened the case for its competitors’ autonomous vehicles and highlighted that having a so-called safety driver is useless (worse than useless because a driver trying to yank back control can only really make things worse…